As one of the lowest ranked states in America, Mississippi is having a generational struggle with a “brain drain”, a phenomenon in which the state’s homegrown educated students leave to find better opportunities elsewhere. In “Plugging the Drain”, MSMS-student Ashton Spence focuses on what is causing this brain drain in Mississippi, what the brain drain is doing to the state, and how its citizens can help reverse the crisis with inputs and interviews from various Mississippi residents and entrepreneurs. By the end, listeners get a better sense of the brain drain issue in Mississippi and its possible solutions.